Welcome to Andrew Osta

Welcome to the official website of the international artist, author, and songwriter Andrew Osta. Born in Kiev Ukraine, Osta received his education in Toronto and later travelled the world creating and exhibiting paintings, lecturing, and teaching. He exhibited with the late Pablo Amaringo in Peru in 2009, and with his close friend, the late Toller Cranston in Mexico in 2014. He had many solo exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, France, Switzerland, and South Korea.

Author of two nonfiction books and many original songs, Andrew dedicates all of his time to creative pursuits. Before taking the plunge and becoming a full-time, self supporting artist in 2010, Osta spent a year working as a teacher in South Korea, followed by a year spent as an Art Healing Counsellor for SISO Hamilton in Canada. During this time, he was part of a small team that developed the first Art Healing and Counseling program in Canada. This program helped refugees relieve stress and overcome traumas through guided creation of art. After SISO, Osta continued to study the relationship between art and healing independently. He spend 8 months in the jungles of Peru, living and studying with a shaman, followed by four months in Mexico. The object was to continue studying ancient modalities of healing, especially those in which music and art played a major role. His travels led him to a retreat in the mountains of Oaxaca where he returned to his Christian roots and discovered further mysteries that would later reflect in his art, music, and writing. Overall, Osta’s creative work can be said to be highly spiritual in nature, with a deeper meaning obvious to those who look for it.

Andrew Osta divides his time between Canada, Mexico, and the south of France. The best way to contact him is by e-mail: andrew @ andrewosta.com or by using the form on this website.

ONLINE PAINTING GALLERY

Automatically painted, Osta’s subjective surrealism works are always unplanned, channeled rather than created. They are distinguished by an organic quality, lack of straight edges, forms that blend into one another, surreal double images, and the possibility of multiple interpretations. Most paintings in this style were made between 2005 and 2010.

Painted in part or completely on location, small acrylic or oil on paintings of special and extraordinarily beautiful places. Landscapes of Oaxaca, San Miguel de Allende, Xalapa (Mexico), Barcelona (Spain), Tuscany (Italy), Cote d’Azur (France), Switzerland, etc. y.

MAILING LIST

Hi Andrew, we sent the check today. Yes, we got the portrait and we like it a lot.Penelope McPhee, President, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

I found your work on immigrantart.org and was immediately interested in seeing more.Justine, Gallery Owner

I would like to purchase a painting about the same size as the one I bought so I could hang the two side by side on a large wall in our house.Rodney O Rogers, Collector

Saw your paintings and I want the one called the girl with the flute. My friend is also interested in buying one of your paintings.Maria Kenyon

I will present your art, along with Pablo Amaringo’s and others, at the Traditional Plant Medicine congress in the city of Pucallpa.Alan Shoemaker, Soga Del Alma

To me, some of your work is no less impressive than a Picasso.Phil Roger, Art teacher & Artist

It is rare to find artwork as compelling as yours. Such a joyous expression.
David, Art Collector

Hola Andrew!! I LOVED the painting!!!!!! Thank you Sooooo much!Collector from the USA

The Toller Cranston Gallery is very much looking forward to having the Andrew Osta painting exhibition in 2013. We have only one exhibition each year.Toller Cranston, Olympic Figure Skater and International Artist

Thank you for the wonderful “El Camaron”. I am very excited that I will be able to have it. It would be hard for me to part with such a great painting if it were my work!Allen H.